GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN'S REPORT ON OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS AND APPLICATION FOR TEMPORAL LIMITATION (EDM2557)

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN'S REPORT ON OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS AND APPLICATION FOR TEMPORAL LIMITATION

EDM number 2557 in 2005-06, proposed by Paul Holmes on 13/07/2006.

That this House condemns the Government's response to the occupational pension crisis that will plunge into poverty at retirement many thousands of workers who lost their pensions between 1997 and 5th April 2005 despite having trusted Government reassurances that their pensions were `safe and guaranteed'; believes that the Government should not have dismissed out of hand the Ombudsman's Report which found maladministration and called for compensation; recognises the inadequacy of the Financial Assistance Scheme which is underfunded and has so far only paid out to 100 people; deplores the disgraceful way in which Government lawyers have sought a temporal limitation which, if it is approved by the Advocate General, possibly as early as 13th July 2006, will deprive many of these pensioners of compensation which would otherwise be due to them if the Community and AMICUS unions win the court case they have taken to the European Court of Justice; and calls on the Government to withdraw its application for temporal limitation and to accept the Ombudsman's findings.

This motion has been signed by a total of 54 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Paul Holmes	13/07/2006	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Steve Webb	13/07/2006	Northavon	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Danny Alexander	13/07/2006	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Willie Rennie	13/07/2006	Dunfermline and West Fife	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Julia Goldsworthy	13/07/2006	Falmouth and Camborne	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Nicholas Clegg	13/07/2006	Sheffield, Hallam	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Sandra Gidley	13/07/2006	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lorely Burt	13/07/2006	Solihull	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Barrett	13/07/2006	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Beith	13/07/2006	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Thurso	13/07/2006	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Williams	13/07/2006	Brecon and Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Hemming	13/07/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tim Farron	13/07/2006	Westmorland and Lonsdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	13/07/2006	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jo Swinson	13/07/2006	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dan Rogerson	13/07/2006	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Rowen	13/07/2006	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Williams	13/07/2006	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Williams	13/07/2006	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Hunter	13/07/2006	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Don Foster	13/07/2006	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	13/07/2006	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Reid	13/07/2006	Argyll and Bute	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Russell	13/07/2006	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Robert Smith	13/07/2006	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Heath	13/07/2006	Somerton & Frome	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Christopher Huhne	13/07/2006	Eastleigh	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Keetch	13/07/2006	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Laws	13/07/2006	Yeovil	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Brake	13/07/2006	Carshalton and Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	13/07/2006	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annette Brooke	13/07/2006	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	13/07/2006	Gordon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Burstow	13/07/2006	Sutton and Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Edward Davey	13/07/2006	Kingston and Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	14/07/2006	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Spink	17/07/2006	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Peter Bottomley	17/07/2006	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	17/07/2006	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Durkan	18/07/2006	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Janet Anderson	18/07/2006	Rossendale and Darwen	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	18/07/2006	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	19/07/2006	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	19/07/2006	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Vincent Cable	20/07/2006	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Pugh	24/07/2006	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lady Hermon	24/07/2006	North Down	UUP	Signed
Nigel Dodds	25/07/2006	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Andrew Stunell	25/07/2006	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sarah Teather	25/07/2006	Brent East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Hywel Williams	25/07/2006	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Adam Price	09/10/2006	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Alan Simpson	12/10/2006	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed

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